The Political Crisis of the 1850s
- ISBN-10
- 0471408409
- ISBN-13
- 9780471408406
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 330
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Michael Fitzgibbon Holt
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1 ( Washington , 1903 ) ; Bertram Wyatt - Brown , " Prelude to Abolitionism : Sabbatarian Politics and the Rise of the Second Party System , " Journal of American History , 58 ( 1971 ) , 316-341 ; and Michael F. Holt , " The Antimasonic ...
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